A few days into the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. answered a midnight phone call and heard – “Nigger, we’re tired of you and your mess now. If you ain’t out of town in three days, we’re gonna blow your brains out and blow up your house.” Weary, frustrated, and fearful for his family, King told himself he had to “call on that something and person Daddy used to tell me about, the power that can make a way out of no way.” He discovered that “religion had to become real to me and I had to know God for myself.”
‘Jesus’ does not attempt to tell those who will listen what they should do in every situation involving adversaries. He does inform them that they will be distinguishable in their attitude and behavior toward their enemies. Even if forced to harm an enemy in defense of those for whom they have an overriding obligation, their process of decision-making and their reaction to the painful consequences that befall an enemy will be exceptional.
‘Jesus’ does not attempt to tell those who will listen what they should do in every situation involving adversaries. He does inform them that they will be distinguishable in their attitude and behavior toward their enemies. Even if forced to harm an enemy in defense of those for whom they have an overriding obligation, their process of decision-making and their reaction to the painful consequences that befall an enemy will be exceptional.
